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Author Boeckmann, Cathy, 1968-

Title A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912 / Cathy Boeckmann.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2000]
©2000
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scientific racism, character, and American fiction -- Thomas Dixon and the rhetorical mulatto -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's phrenological photograph -- Howells and Chesnutt: the racial uses of genre -- Character and black art in The autobiography of an ex-Coloured man -- Epilogue: race and representation -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Racism in literature.
Racism in literature.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Literature and science -- United States -- History.
Literature and science.
United States.
History.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Race discrimination in literature.
Race discrimination in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Literary form.
Literary form.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Boeckmann, Cathy, 1968- Question of character. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000 0817310215 (DLC) 99006765 (OCoLC)42022208
ISBN 058536026X (electronic book)
9780585360263 (electronic book)
0817310215 (alkaline paper)

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